lest we forget, streaming is also the worst option for artists in terms of compensation.
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Apple Aiming to End iTunes Music Downloads in Two Years [Update: Apple Says 'Not True']
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lest we forget, streaming is also the worst option for artists in terms of compensation.
I've always hated every single thing about iTunes and have stayed as far away from it as I possibly could.
I could care less what happens to it.
Spotify all the way where it comes to music.
I could care less what happens to it.
Spotify all the way where it comes to music.
There are two things that I don't like about this, especially if this includes killing iTunes Match.
I have a lot of concert recordings and other rarities in my collection that will probably never be available on streaming.
I also like having the ability to edit tracks, weather to key-shift them, shorten them or play with them in a hundred ways (and yes, all of this is legal).
So, Boo to apple if this is true. They're working hard to make me leave their ecosystem.
I have a lot of concert recordings and other rarities in my collection that will probably never be available on streaming.
I also like having the ability to edit tracks, weather to key-shift them, shorten them or play with them in a hundred ways (and yes, all of this is legal).
So, Boo to apple if this is true. They're working hard to make me leave their ecosystem.
If they do this, I'll go elsewhere.
1. I like to own my music.
2. I don't exactly have a good internet connection, so streaming is off the table.
Because to stream without it re-buffering so often, I have to dial the quality back to TERRIBLE sounding levels, if it's even possible to do so.
Pretty much the reason I don't use Spotify.
3. I am frequently offline when it comes to my music, and as such wouldn't be able to stream at all at those times. Local copies are pretty much mandatory for my usage needs.
1. I like to own my music.
2. I don't exactly have a good internet connection, so streaming is off the table.
Because to stream without it re-buffering so often, I have to dial the quality back to TERRIBLE sounding levels, if it's even possible to do so.
Pretty much the reason I don't use Spotify.
3. I am frequently offline when it comes to my music, and as such wouldn't be able to stream at all at those times. Local copies are pretty much mandatory for my usage needs.
This isn't really about "streaming vs download", since you can do both whether you use Apple Music or buy your music through iTunes. It's about "subscription vs buying".
Streaming services can download files for offline play. You have zero point.
Yes (well free with ads and no offline music) and that is why I use Spotify for my music discovery and then when I like what I hear, it's off to the iTunes Store or the music store (for a physical CD). The only reason I used Apple Music for the trial period was because I could have my purchased music alongside streamable music, but for me is not worth paying a fee for that given how terribly designed Apple Music is and how much slower the streaming is than Spotify.
Add in : A) Streaming services often can't satisfy individual, listening preferences.
So the concept of "album art" (and iTunes digital booklets/albums) which Steve Jobs loved…. is essentially dead. 
Apple made the same deal with the record industry. It sucks pretty hard for artists, especially small ones.
You don't own your music by paying a dollar for the license to listen to it on the device you paid. You own it exactly the same way by streaming/downloading it via Apple Music, it's just an obviously more cost effective, simpler option.
So just because people don't being Shoehorned into a different way of music ownership (DIFFERENT is not equal to better) means they're living in the past?
How about everyone has different needs and wants with their music library, having options to stream and to purchase and download gives both options.
Download them on your mac or PC then upload them to Apple Music. They're DRM free.
And most Americans traveling to a 3rd world country…. where wifi is unreliable or unavailable unless you book a 5-star hotel. Those vacationers are not going to have any music to listen to.
Just as a reminder, they haven't actually done it.
It's just a rumor. While these things are certainly being discussed, I don't believe they have made any decision. If it happens, it will happen once the business is pretty much dead anyway and few people will care. If the current trend towards subscriptions doesn't continue and music purchases continue to generate significant business, they will obviously not kill it.What the? In addition to the many listed reasons why that would suck I'd like to include the fact that although I use some mobile streaming around town I always use my downloaded purchased music out on the boat, driving to the beach through the mountain ranges, camping, and any other situation where I simply CAN'T stream music because I have little or no Internet (or a low battery). It's the whole reason I'll go to the iTunes store and purchase items.